Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor

Villanova University’s unique Engineering Entrepreneurship minor receives support from the Kern Family Foundation, whose objective it is to equip engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset that will enable them to contribute to business success.

Open to students in all engineering disciplines beginning in their sophomore year, the minor consists of 16 credits and begins with an exciting course in Creativity and Innovation. Other topics in the minor include:

Opportunity analysis

New product ideation and development

Intellectual property

Project management

Protoyping

Basic accounting and finance concepts

Project funding

Product launching

New product marketing

Risk management

Team development

By the end of their sophomore year, students start working in teams under the guidance of faculty members and experienced entrepreneurs to develop marketable products and services.

“Villanova Engineers Embrace Entrepreneurship”

About College of Engineering

Villanova University College of Engineering is committed to an educational program that emphasizes technical excellence and a liberal arts education within the framework of the University's Augustinian and Catholic traditions. As a community of scholars, we seek to educate students to pursue both knowledge and wisdom, and to aspire to ethical and moral leadership within their chosen careers, their community, and the world.